Button.



No 802,663. PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905. G. H. SCHOTT.

BUTTON.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.11.1905.

Wail. W This? CHARLES H. SCHOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Application filed April 11, 1905. Serial No. 255,015.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. Sonora, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to buttons of that class in which a piece of textile fabric is used upon the face of the button, both the textile fabric and the material of which the pody of the button is made showing upon the ace.

The object of my invention is to provide a button so constructed that the textile material can be easily and securely held in place without the use of elaborate mechanism or tools of any kind and by any person without special knowledge or skill.

My invention is an improvement of the button shown in the patent to Nelson, N 0. 337,607, of March 9, 1886, of which I was the owner at the time of its expiration.

My improved button consists of a body suitably provided with eyes or other means of securing the button to the garment and provided with a recess upon its face for the textile fabric. The piece of textile fabric is retained in place by a ring, which in turn is retained in place by a raised portion of the body of the button.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the button completed and attached to the cloth in the usual manner, the thread passing only through the main body of the button. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the button completed and mounted upon the strip offabric, the thread passing through the main body of the button and through the piece of textile fabric. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. i is a plan view of my ring, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form thereof. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a portion of a ring, showing another modification. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 4E. The size of the button and its parts is exaggerated for clearness of illustration.

A is the main body of the button provided witha raised rim m and an undercut n. The main body of the button is made of any suitable substance of which buttons are usually made, such as bone, celluloid, ivory, &c. B

is a ring preferably of the cross-section shown in Fig. 3-that is to say, a ring convexed at its upper surface and concaved at its lower surface, so as to be easily expanded.

The ringis made of brass or other similarflexible material and may be lacquered, bronzed, japanned, or finished in any other usual manner, according to the effect which is desired to be produced by the finished button, the color of the finish being determined in part by the color of the main body of the button and in part by the color of the textile fabric which is to form a part of the assembled button. C is a piece of textile or other fabric which is laid in place in the depressed portion of the main body of the button. D represents the cloth to which the button is attached by means of thread E t passing through the usual apertures provided for this purpose in the main body of the button.

The button is assembled as follows: The piece of fabric (J is placed in the depressed portion of the main body of the button A, and the ring B is then pressed by hand or by means of simple tools down upon the fabric 0. The ring-B is of such a size that it will readily fit under slight pressure into the undercut portion a of the body of the button. The flexibility of the material of which the ring is composed and its peculiar construction enables the ring to be easily pressed into place. The ring retains the fabric in place and also adds to the ornamental appearance of the completed article. I may also provide the ring B with notches or other indentations w, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. These notches enable the ring to expand more easily and to flatten more readily, so as to hold the fabric in place more securely, especially where it is desired to reduce the size of the undercut portion a. In Fig. 5 the indentations are sawed into the edge. In Fig. 6 the indentations are produced by scalloping the edge. However, the main advantage of this slit or scalloped ring is that it enables the ring to contract sufliciently to avoid the cracking of buttons made of vegetable ivory or of any other material influenced by changes of temperature. Vegetable ivory is peculiarly susceptible to the effects of heat, contracting noticeably even in summer heat, so that a button of this material would crack if no allowance were made for such contraction.

It is obvious that the main body of the button may be applied to the fabric or cloth of the garment before the button is completely assembled, so that the thread E may not show on the exterior of the completed button. The particular advantage of my form of button lies in the fact that the button may easily and readily be assembled by the dressmaker who has first cut the piece C out of a scrap of the cloth of which the garment is made, so that the button may exactly match the garment, the main body of the button being first sewed upon the garment, the fabric G being then placed into the same, so as to conceal the thread, and the ring then applied, so as to hold the textile fabric in place. My button may thus be sold in assembled form or in its separate parts.

I claim as my invention 1. A button comprising a body provided With a raised undercut rim, a facing of textile material, and a non-elastic expanded ring pressed into place in the undercut portion of the rim.

2. A button comprising a body provided with a raised undercut rim, a facing of textile material, and a non-elastic expanded ring substantially of inverted-U-shaped cross-section, pressed into place in the undercut portion of the rim.

3. A button comprising a body provided With a raised undercut rim, a facing of textile material, and a flexible ring, substantially of inverted U shaped cross section, provided with indentations on its outer periphery pressed into place in the undercut portion of the ring.

4:. A set of parts adapted to form a button, comprising a main body having an undercut rim and an expansible, non-elastic ring normallyof a circumference not larger than the smallest circumference of the rim, but capable of being expanded so as to have a circumference larger than such smallest circumference of the rim, and adapted to be pressed into the undercut portion of the rim and to hold in place a piece of textile material.

5. A set of parts adapted to form a button comprising a main body having an undercut rim and an expansible, non-elastic ring substantially U-shaped in cross-section, normally of a circumference not larger than the smallest circumference of the rim, but capable of being expanded so as to have a circumference larger than such smallest circumference of the rim, and adapted to be pressed into the undercut portion of the rim, and to hold in place a piece of textile fabric.

6. A set of parts adapted to form a button comprising a main body having an undercut rim, and an expansible, non-elastic ring substantially U-shaped in cross-section, provided With indentations on its outer periphery, said ring being normally of a circumference not larger than the smallest circumference of the rim, but capable of being expanded so as to have a circumference larger than such smallest circumference of the rim, and adapted to be pressed into the undercut portion of the rim and to hold in place a piece of textile CHARLES H. SCHOTT.

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